“Climate Change” Experts Claim Winter Storms Will Get Worse

By William Teach February 13, 2015 – 10:33 am

This is the evolution of Hotcoldwetdry at play

Experts: Climate Change May Make Northeast Winter Storms Worse

The idea of a snow day is becoming less and less appealing as the city and surrounding areas suffer one winter storm after the other.

Snow has been no friend to the Northeast this winter, and as another storm is ready to pummel the Northeast this weekend, climate change experts offer an explanation of why record-breaking amounts of precipitation may become a norm for the region.

“Simple physical laws will tell you that a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture,” Dr. David Robinson, a state climatologist at Rutgers University, says. “So it’s related to warmer temperatures and more abundant moisture available in the atmosphere, but you still need an impetus.  You still need a storm.”

Of course, they hedge their bets for “in the future”

As for the future, climate change may also be behind why increasing snowfall will continue to happen not only in the next couple of years but for decades to come with a contained, much smaller winter season for the Northeast.

“Frankly, we’re going to see that for years and years to come, a 20 degree snow storm in a couple of decades may a 25 degree snow storm as long as it’s still cold enough to snow,” says Dr. Robinson. “And with the warmer atmosphere, I see the chances of heavier snows continuing into the future. But with time, youre going to have occasions where a snow storm from the past is going to become a rain storm because you have crossed that important threshold of the freezing point.”

In other words, future winters in the Northeast may turn from snow days to rainy days.

So, now global warming (caused mostly/solely by mankind, according to Warmists, mind you) will first make it snowier, then rainier?

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Civil Rights Leaders Get Big Lesson In Police Shoot/Don’t Shoot Situations

By William Teach February 13, 2015 – 7:05 am

It’s very easy for people not in situations to say how the police should have handled them. It’s rather different when you yourself are put in those situations

(Fox News) It was a split-second decision.

A distressed man with a baby in tow was pacing back and forth in a manic state and shouting incoherently. The responding police officer calmly addressed the man in an attempt to calm him down and defuse the situation, but the man suddenly pulled an object from his side and lunged toward the officer. Instinctively, the officer raised his Taser and squeezed the trigger. It turned out the man was armed with a knife, but the “officer,” who was actually the firebrand African-American activist known as Quanell X, acknowledged he would have fired whether the assailant had a knife, a spoon or an empty hand.

“I didn’t even see it,” said the leader of the Houston area Black Panther Party, who was taking part in a training scenario in an attempt to understand what police officers go through during high-pressure situations. “It could have been anything in his hand, and I still would have used force to stop him.

“It all happened so fast,” he added. “You don’t know what they could have in their hand.”

Quannell X and Arizona activist the Rev. Jarrett Maupin took part in these exercises, and learned quite a bit as to what happens in situations where officers may use force, up to the use of deadly force. Quannell took the test with the police department of Houston, in situations where one may pull a gun (they used paintball guns), a taser, or hold fire. At one point, Quannell pulled his gun and fired it 6 times during a routine traffic stop scenario where the suspect reached behind his back.

“I walked away with a few things,” Quanell said “Many of these officers do not have adequate training and they should not be patrolling by themselves. Having backup would stop them from being skittish and firing their weapon.

“Also, we have to teach our community that, even if you disagree with the officer, do not try to litigate with them on the spot,” he added. “Live to see another day. Don’t let our pride get in the way. Otherwise, you are setting yourself up.”

Having backup would certainly help. Unfortunately, that is often not an option, as situations develop quickly. Officers are often skittish because they essentially deal with crime most of their day, and use of force situations so often happen in neighborhoods which are not the safest.

Muapin joined the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for exercises, and learned quite a few things himself, and opened fire during a situation where a suspect rushed him, even after he gave them a very respectful greeting

“I encourage all civil right leaders to take this training,” he added. “I know there’s truth to the other side.”

Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a standing invitation for Al Sharpton to come down and give the training a whirl.

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Cornyn Reintroduces Bill To Allow Concealed Carry Reciprocity

By William Teach February 13, 2015 – 6:46 am

It’s amazing that we actually need this, considering reciprocity is embedded in the Constitution

(The Hill) Gun owners would be allowed to carry concealed weapons around the country under new legislation introduced in the Senate.

The Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act would allow gun owners who have a concealed carry permit in their home state to bring their firearms in any other state with concealed-carry laws.

“This operates more or less like a driver’s license,” Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the second-ranking Republican in the upper chamber, told The Hill. “So, for example, if you have a driver’s license in Texas, you can drive in New York, in Utah and other places, subject to the laws of those states.”

Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said this would “eliminate some of the ‘gotcha moments,’ where people inadvertently cross state lines” with guns they are legally allowed to carry in their home state.

Furthermore, it would easily allow those with concealed carry permits to protect themselves when traveling, as Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action notes

“Our fundamental right to self-defense does not stop at a state’s borders. Law abiding citizens should be able to exercise this right while traveling across state lines,” Cox added.

Of course, this does not address the notion of people without concealed carry bringing their weapons to another state while traveling, who would use it with open carry as in their own state and/or keep it locked up. Everytown for Gun Safety President John Feinblatt

Everytown argues that Cornyn’s bill would allow states with the “weakest gun laws to trump the reasonable judgments” of others, since people who qualify for concealed carry permits in some states would get to carry their guns into places with tougher requirements.

And, typically, those areas with the most stringent CCPs have the most crime, necessitating the need for a CCP. Strange how that works, eh?

Cornyn’s bill previously came close to passing in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and may have a better chance this time around under the Republican majority

Unless Republicans get squishy, this should pass easily. And would probably lead to another Obama veto threat prior to Obama even reading the bill.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Naomi Klein: Divestment Movement Makes Nationalization Easier

By William Teach February 12, 2015 – 3:01 pm

Naomi Klein is one of the few Warmists who admit what one of the main reasons for the Warmist movement is: hard core Progressive values, which includes the central government taking over economic activity. She continues with this in a Grist interview, which is on the power of the fossil fuels divestment movement

Another point I would make, [about] carbon pricing, is that when we make the argument that this is a rogue sector (she means fossil fuels, to be clear), that their business plan is at odds with life on earth, we are creating an intellectual and political space where it becomes much easier to tax those profits, to increase royalties, and even to nationalize these companies.

So, theft of profits and theft of private property by The Government. She continues in the same paragraph

This is not just about the fact that we want to separate ourselves from these companies, it’s also that we have a right to those profits. If those profits are so illegitimate that Harvard shouldn’t be invested in them, they’re also so illegitimate that taxpayers have a right to them to pay for a transition away from fossil fuels, and to pay the bills for a crisis created by this sector. It’s not just about dissociating ourselves from their profits, but potentially getting a much larger piece of them.

Got that? Progressives, specifically mean The Government, who would then redistribute the money, have a right to those profits, despite having done nothing themselves. Except use evil fossil fuels themselves. The Warmist movement, as I’ve said time and time again, is about control: control of individuals, control of private companies, control of economies, which all includes things like higher taxes and fees, while accumulating massive power in the hands of the Central Government. Thanks to Naomi Klein for continuing to tell us what her Warmist brethren really want to accomplish.

Humorously, the same Warmists never seem to think all the power and control and taxes and fees will effect themselves.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 12, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible kitchen appliance which are left plugged in leading to vampire power loss, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on Obama’s lame ISIS resolution.

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Big Wind Practicing Mountain-top Removal In Vermont

By William Teach February 12, 2015 – 9:59 am

I’ve mentioned multiple times that I am no big fan of coal, and would like to see it replace with a viable alternative that is environmentally cleaner (environmentally meaning the environment, not CO2) and has a similar power density and cost. Furthermore, mountaintop removal has always been horrible, though, it is considerably safer for workers than going underground. Good thing the Warmist movement isn’t doing anything similar, right?

Environmentalists Shave Off Entire Mountaintops In The Name Of Environmentalism

This is solar power in Vermont: clearcutting, mountaintop removal and tons of waste.

It’s the destructive new form of “renewable” energy that leftists are touting.

But some environmentalists are complaining the costs of wind energy don’t live up to the benefits.

Here’s what that looks like

In all fairness, that’s not as bad as what occurs for coal, but, it is environmental destruction….in the name of saving the environment. Go figure

The article also provides this quote from Mark Whitworth, owner of Energize Vermont

“The claims Green Mountain Power makes for Lowell’s carbon avoidance are inflated. They claim that the wind turbine complex avoids 74,000 tons of carbon a year. That may sound like a lot, but it’s equivalent to the amount of carbon emitted by New York City traffic in less than half a day,” Whitworth said.

“The turbines are projected to last 20 years. … The amount of carbon (Lowell would avoid) is less than two weeks of carbon produced by New York City traffic. We traded an intact ecosystem, a vital wildlife habitat, for less than two weeks of New York City carbon emissions. It’s not a good trade.”

Huh. We also get this quote from article cited in the first exerpt

“The intact ecosystem, the wildlife habitat that we destroyed, is required to enable plant and animal species to adapt and survive climate change. So, we claim to be concerned about climate change, but we’re destroying the habitat that plants and animals are going to require in order to adapt to climate change. Climate change is here. It can’t be reversed, even if were to stop emitting carbon altogether right now,” he said.

Warmists are destroying pristine wild areas to install solar and wind projects. For negligible results.

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Washington Post Very Concerned Over Scott Walker Leaving College Early

By William Teach February 12, 2015 – 7:08 am

These are the kinds of stories that will emanate from the Credentialed Media as the silly season, ie, primaries leading to the general election, approaches and gets in full swing, at least as how it applies to Republicans. There will be lots of concerned articles as well as “just wondering”, like how they wondered multiple times whether McCain was eligible to be president, since he was born in the Panama Canal Zone (he was). Or whether he had an affair (he didn’t). Or Romney’s dog on the roof, and haircut “outrage” when he was in high school. Of course, Democrats are mostly given a pass

As Scott Walker mulls White House bid, questions linger over college exit

Scott Walker was gone. Dropped out. And in the spring of his senior year.

In 1990, that news stunned his friends at Marquette University. Walker, the campus’s suit-wearing, Reagan-loving politico — who enjoyed the place so much that he had run for student body president — had left without graduating.

To most of the Class of 1990 — and, later, to Wisconsin’s political establishment — Walker’s decision to quit college has been a lingering mystery.

Not even his friends at Marquette were entirely sure why he never finished. Some had heard that a parent had fallen ill, or maybe there was some financial strain. Others thought he had simply had enough of school.

This is amusing for two reason: it is a thinly veiled hit piece ahead of Walker potentially running for president. Second, the Washington Post is one of the major outlets who utterly refused to take a serious look into Obama’s background, much less his college years. As ulyssesmsu writes in the comments

You damn hypocrites. You write an article this big about Barack Obama’s sealed college records first, and then maybe you’ll have the credibility to investigate Scott Walker. First Obama, then everyone else.

Do not expect any similar pieces on Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth (Fauxahontas) Warren, or other Democrats, expect as a way to explain the issues away. And, other than the Washington Post, who still has questions about Walker leaving college over 20 years ago?

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Chapel Hill Murders Called “Hate Crime” By Father

By William Teach February 12, 2015 – 6:53 am

Chapel Hill police are pretty sure that the murders occurred over a parking dispute. Obviously, many are immediately jumping to this being a hate crime. Aren’t most murders rather about hate?

(Raleigh N&O) The news spread fast on social media, where many didn’t believe the killer’s motive could be explained by an argument about parking. Relatives were quick to call the slayings of three American Muslims a hate crime. “I mean, who would kill somebody over a parking spot?” said Abdel Kader Barakat, a cousin of Deah Barakat.

People are welcome to their own opinions, but not to their own facts, as the saying goes.

The women’s father, Dr. Mohammad Abu-Salha, who has a psychiatry practice in Clayton, said regardless of what prompted the shooting Tuesday night, Hicks’ underlying animosity toward Barakat and Abu-Salha was based on their religion and culture.

“It was execution style, a bullet in every head,” Abu-Salha said. “This was not a dispute over a parking space; this was a hate crime. This man had picked on my daughter and her husband a couple of times before, and he talked with them with his gun in his belt. And they were uncomfortable with him, but they did not know he would go this far.”

Abu-Salha said his daughter, who lived next door to Hicks, wore a Muslim head scarf and told her family a week ago that she had “a hateful neighbor.”

“Honest to God, she said, ‘He hates us for what we are and how we look,’ ” he said.

Is it possible that Craig Hicks hated Muslims? That would be rather inconvenient for Liberals, since he is a hard core Atheist and a big fan of Progressives. However, might it just be that the said parking dispute involved ugly language and behavior, as so many disputes do? Because of you think this murder is unbelievable, perhaps you should know that

That list could go on and on and on. In inner cities, everyone thinks that the majority of murders are about gangs and drugs. In fact, most murders tend to be “motiveless”, essentially being about “disrespect“. This applies to shootings and stabbings, as well.

If it is a “hate crime”, in other words, a thought crime, that would look pretty bad for Atheists and Progressives, eh? But, the simplest explanation is usually the most likely explanation, and killing over a parking dispute is, sadly, entirely believable. That Hicks was an Atheist and the victims Muslims is meaningless. The victims could have been Christians, Jews, heck, other Atheists, and had the same outcome. Of course, this wouldn’t be “worldwide news”, though.

Just to be clear, the point of mentioning that Hicks is an Atheist yesterday was not to blame Atheists, but to point out media bias, since so many avoided mentioning his non-faith faith, unlike if he was a Christian, TEA Party member, Republican, etc.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 11, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible natural gas stove causing massive snowstorms, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on Warmist organizations taking lots of money from Big Oil.

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Bummer: Snowmageddon Threatened “Climate Change” Conference

By William Teach February 11, 2015 – 12:38 pm

Of course, we must all remember that global warming is causing these massive snows (via The First Street Journal)

(CFACT) The record-shattering snow that has shut down Boston’s public transit system threatens to white out a global warming forum organized by Massachusetts Senate President Stanley Rosenberg (D, Amherst).

Rosenberg scheduled the forum for 1 PM Tuesday beneath the golden dome of the Massachusetts State House in Boston.

‘Rosenberg said the state has already seen how climate change is manifesting itself in the state with stronger storms, extreme temperatures, and a changing environment.’

Bummer

Inconveniently, Boston is in the midst of its snowiest winter in a century.  The city hit 73″ inches of snow on Monday placing this year on the top ten list for snowiest winters on record, surpassing the 72.9″ recorded during the winter of 1903-1904.

WCVB TV reports that, ‘Boston also set a record with the most snow in 30 days with 60.8 inches.’

Double bummer

Such events are, however, terribly inconvenient for the global warming narrative. In 2000 climate scientist David Viner of Britain’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) famously proclaimed that snow was increasingly a thing of the past, saying “children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” Fourteen years later Boston’s schoolchildren have run out of snow days. Officials are considering cutting short their spring breaks to compensate.

Triple bummer. And, yes, it was officially cancelled

(MassLive) A legislative forum on climate change has been postponed, ironically, due to the weather.

“I hope these repeated, severe storms serve as a platform for some important conversations around bolstering our natural and built infrastructure against climate change once a new date has been set for this discussion,” said State Sen. Marc Pacheco (D-Taunton), who chairs the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change and organized the summit.

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